SHAREfactory: After you update your PS4 to v1.70, an icon to download our free SHAREfactory app will appear on your PS4 system’s home screen once it’s available. Once installed, SHAREfactory allows you to easily customize your gameplay videos with special effects, video commentary with picture-in-picture capability through PlayStation Camera, and custom soundtracks using the included audio tracks or your original music imported from a USB drive. You can then share your videos on Facebook or export them to an external USB storage device. The app is packed with plenty of cool, but accessible, tools. It’s simple enough to use for beginning editors, while functioning as a rich video editor for those with more creative aspirations. Check out our new SHAREfactory video above that provides a walkthrough of what you can expect:

Automatic pre-download: You’ll soon be able to start downloading select pre-ordered games from PlayStation Store. This new feature allows you to get to your games faster by automatically downloading select pre-ordered games up to several days in advance of the release, so that it’s ready to play as soon as the game is released on launch day. There’s also a countdown timer prior to the release of the game so you’ll know how soon your game will be available for you to start playing.

Option to disable HDCP for games: This highly requested feature will allow you to have the option to turn off HDCP for games so you can capture longer gameplay sessions directly from your HDMI output and export them elsewhere.

USB export option for captured gameplay: It’s now even easier to show off your heroic gaming moments and the SHAREfactory videos you create with the world using this feature to export your videos and screenshots to a USB drive. Just click on the DUALSHOCK 4 SHARE button, save your gameplay on a USB drive, and then share your proudest achievements on other social networks and other video platforms.

Live broadcasting in HD and archiving support: We’ve increased the resolution for live broadcasts so you and your friends can watch games livestreamed in 720p HD. You can also archive your broadcasts on Twitch or Ustream and watch them again later.

New SHARE options: We’ve got a number of new SHARE settings that will give you better control of what you want to share with your friends. Here is what you can look forward to:

Change the default gameplay recording time in the SHARE menu under Video Clip Settings.
Save only the video clips and screenshots you want by selecting Upload Screenshots or Upload Video Clips for each capture. Also upload video clips and screenshots during your live gameplay broadcasts.
Select specific Facebook audiences to share each video or screenshot with.

New DUALSHOCK 4 options: New light bar settings have been added for DUALSHOCK 4, allowing you to change it to Bright, Medium or Dim in the Settings menu. The touchpad has also been updated, allowing you to navigate the on-screen keyboard using the DUALSHOCK 4 touchpad.

New Friends options: It’s now easier to find Friends and send requests with the ability to search Friends-of-Friends, view Mutual Friends on another user’s profile, and accept Friend requests directly from the Friends list.

New Trophies sort option: You can now sort Trophies by rarity in the Options menu.

The Android/IOS App has updated too - with push notifications enabled and easier navigation of the friends and messaging section etc. Good step forward there.

I am not massively into the share stuff, so not a major update for me. The functionality looks good though. I would like to see some work on friends area, which is harder to navigate than it was on the PS3. I would still like to be able to get notifications when friends sign on etc. too. (I am using the PS3 Trophies app on Android to do this at the moment.)

PS4 2 (the newer one) prompted me to install manually and then gave me the blue light, a dark blue screen like an old PS3 one, installed the update, then said rebuilding database and then restarted as normal

...and still no MP3 etc or DNLA support. What a surprise. 6 months since launch and the system still seems half baked.

As stated many times, they are going through the list in ORDER of requested, HDCP Off, Video Exporting and Picture Exporting to USB were one of the first things requested last year. Music Playback was spotted in some players profiles currently in a test phase, so that might be the next major firmware?

As stated many times, they are going through the list in ORDER of requested, HDCP Off, Video Exporting and Picture Exporting to USB were one of the first things requested last year. Music Playback was spotted in some players profiles currently in a test phase, so that might be the next major firmware?

Got a link to this 'list'? And who has stated that they are going through said list in any ORDER? Please don't say it was Sony that said so.... lol

@yosp on Twitter, you know, that head of PlayStation guy or something, I get the feeling he might know a thing or two.

He said (in regards to MP3 and DLNA) he would share it with the PS4 Dev team for "future consideration". Sounds promising...well it did in October last year.
Nevermind in the meantime there is the much requested feature allowing users to sort their trophies in order of rarity

He said (in regards to MP3 and DLNA) he would share it with the PS4 Dev team for "future consideration". Sounds promising...well it did in October last year.
Nevermind in the meantime there is the much requested feature allowing users to sort their trophies in order of rarity

Sony's "Soon" has a new meaning now, HDCP Off and Video Exporting to USB was promised "Soon" after the console launch. So take what was said in October and just add a few more months onto that one.

And yeah, the console is half baked, do you remember how bad the PS3 was for the first year? I don't know why early adopters were expecting things to be different this time.

But it is looking messy. And it's only a few months in. Think of the mess on screen after a few years.

But no folders please.

Maybe they could do something similar to xbox one where your apps and games are in different sections. It looks much more organised. Hopefully sony will organise the ui a bit soon. It is only a few months in as you say.

Maybe they could do something similar to xbox one where your apps and games are in different sections. It looks much more organised. Hopefully sony will organise the ui a bit soon. It is only a few months in as you say.

I have no idea what the Xbox dashboard is like. Organising by games, apps would be like the PS3 is like. And there isn't much in the way of apps yet. But if they did that and had a favourites row, that could be ok.

To be honest I have no idea what they could do to clean it up but by they'd want to come up with something in the next few months.

I have no idea what the Xbox dashboard is like. Organising by games, apps would be like the PS3 is like. And there isn't much in the way of apps yet. But if they did that and had a favourites row, that could be ok.

To be honest I have no idea what they could do to clean it up but by they'd want to come up with something in the next few months.

On xbone it's just a my games and apps option then 3 sections, games, apps and downloads. Just a little tidier that's all. Just personally I'd like a bit more organisation option on the PS4.

I think it's perfectly valid to expect a new console to have (at a minimum) feature parity with its predecessor, rather than actually have fewer features...

[The same goes for the Xbox One.]

The lack of DLNA or media playback from USB like PS3 is a huge point holding me back from getting a PS4 at the moment. I want to be able to move the PS3 to another room once I get the PS4 but without media playback I would have to keep both set up on the main TV to continue viewing my media.